spherical excess

noun

Mathematics.

the difference between the sum of the angles of a spherical triangle and two right angles.

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The largest triangle has one angle at Snowdon in Wales, another on Slieve Donard in Ireland, and a third at Scaw Fell in Cumberland; each side is over a hundred miles and the spherical excess is 64″.